Pop Art in the West emerged in the post-war period as an ironic, self-examining, but enthusiastic look at the mass imagery of our consumerist society. Pop Art stood firmly at the cross roads of the elite avant-garde of the art world and the broader interests of popular culture and society at large. The new Museum of Pop Art will be the global keeper of some of the pop art’s legacy. Its goal is to increase pop art’s influence and visibility in the international gateway city of Miami, Florida. The Miami Design District is an 18 square block creative neighborhood dedicated to innovative fashion, design, art, architecture. After decades of falling urban decay, the Design District hasrisen to fame as a destination for the arts and design. The goal for the new Museum of Pop Art is to evaluate the potentials of artistic techniques indesigning architecture that flows from topological surfaces and spatial arrangements, and to apply these to a range of familiar architectural issues.The final proposal emerges out of an inter-related working method between artistic techniques, program, space, atmosphere and materials that combine todevelop an innovative new museum formation.
Miami, Florida
2019
MUSEUM OF POP ART
Evaluate the potentials of artistic techniques to develop a new museum formation
Generation
When considering pop and modern art, there are useful aesthetic effectsthat can give us techniques to design with. David Hockney's painting, "Swimming pool" generates a metaphysical feeling through 2D techniques. Unique to Hockney one can sense the glimmer and glittering of the sunlight on the surface of the water and the viscosity and motion of the pool water. We studied this concept of glimmer to develop a series of spatia ltechniques of color, inlaying, nesting, and carving.
Basquiat’s “Untitled” is another epic painting, with its monumental size and visceral energy marking it as one of the artist’s most seminal works. It is the dynamism and spontaneity with which Basquiat constructs his painterly surface that distinguishes this work as a masterpiece. From the lavishly fashioned demonic figure in the center of thecanvas, to his brazen use of painterly drips, splashes and impulsive brushwork, the surface of “Untitled” acts as a totem to Basquiat’s unencumbered talent. We generated the concepts of viscosity, bifurcation, contrast from the painting’s very own spontaneity and deployed them throughout the building.
Implementation
One of the main goals of this study is to spatially control natural and artificial light using these techniques. We created two types of geometries that generated from the diagrams. Pattern on the left refers to the Basquiet painting where geometry follows the gap among circles and flows towards the center of the building. Therefore, more volumetical spaces and large opening are created. Pattern on the right refers to the Hockney painting and is studied to create small windows in circle shape. Thus, more subtle and tranquail moment are created in the building.
Composition
These techniques create a unique gallery and public experience. The facade has a few different design moments, on the side facing the ICA thefacade is flat with in laid and carved geometries that allow indirect light tothe interior during the day and softly glow at night. Where the facade facesthe street corner the technique becomes more three dimensional and spatial,volumes are cut from the building, exposing the interior and creating an urban moment where the museum's program seeps to the outside.
